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Adios, Bill Knight

While enjoying my morning coffee on Jan. 3, and reading my El Paso Times, I came upon Bill Knight's column, and I will say his farewell caught me by surprise. Here's wishing Bill a long, happy and well-deserved retirement! His sports stories were always welcome reading, especially the ones about coach Don Haskins, "The Bear." His column will be missed as Ramon Renteria's is since his retirement. Again, wishing both El Paso Times institutions a long and happy retirement. Adios, amigos.

Where are the Miner Maniacs?

Letter writer Victor Morales wrote about the poor attendance at Miner basketball games. The solution to poor attendance at Miner football and basketball games and other athletic events lies in the student body. Never in my life of attending Miner football games have I looked over to the student section and seen so many empty seats. The same can be said of “The Don."

What's wrong with our student body? With a student population of over 25,000, the stadium should have 40,000 fans at every miner game. Consider this: Let's say half of the student body showed up with a date to the game (about 25,000 total), plus the season ticket holders and those that decide at the last minute to go to the game, you would be looking at a stadium with 40,000 plus fans every time.

Yes, everybody wants to go see a winning team but win or lose, support the Miners. Come on, students, get with it. Whatever happened to the Miner Maniacs?

Enough Beto articles already

Enough already. We get it! Beto O’Rourke wants to be president and you feel that it is your job to keep his name before the public for the next two years. Nearly every issue of your paper contains another article on Beto that has absolutely nothing new to add. Please, give it a rest.

The rest of America should secede from California

I read an article by Stephen Sorace of Fox News about how the California Public Utilities Commission is going to vote next month on a proposal to tax text messages. If passed, they would like to make the tax retroactive 5 years from the time of passage!

It is unlikely this scheme will ever go anywhere (at least for now), but it gives us an idea of just how California's "rulers" think and plan for the unwashed masses.

Not even "1984" featured the "Speech-Tax Collectors."

Personally, I recommend that America secede from California. Just a thought ....

President Trump can't win

Dishonest, grandstanding Democrats love to use mass illegal immigration as a bludgeoning implement against Republicans, and it's pathetically transparent. When President Donald Trump was putting illegal immigrants in holding facilities across Texas and the Southwest, including the many children irresponsibly put into difficult positions by their own parents, he was the worst person since Mussolini.

Now that these holding facilities are over capacity due to the endlessly snaking caravans coming up from the failed states of central America, border enforcement has no choice but to release these illegal immigrants into American cities. And guess what? Trump is, again, the worst person since Mussolini, according to Democrats.

Maybe we should just forgo border enforcement altogether, open the borders, and give up on the Westphalian concept of territorial sovereignty? Maybe we can spend another trillion dollars (give or take, probably mostly give) rolling out the red carpet for worldwide refugees everywhere. After all, we're already $21 trillion in debt; what's another trillion or so?

The point is there's really no measure a Republican in office can take with regard to illegal immigration that won't be met with condemnation from grandstanding Democrats. Yet when it comes to serious leadership and responsible action on immigration issues, Democrats largely appear to be absent.

If the Democrats ever do decide to exercise leadership on immigration, they should keep in mind one thing: Most people want a secure and orderly immigration system.